Trump administration claims details of mass deportations are state secrets Justice department avoids providing US judge information on expulsions of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador The Guardian - US · Mar 25, 2025
Trump administration refuses to answer judge’s questions over El Salvador deportation flights, citing ‘state secrets’ Officials tell Judge Boasberg that ‘no further information will be provided’ after a weeklong standoff The Independent UK · Mar 25, 2025
Trump claims the right to deport anyone Judge Patricia Millett said the Trump administration is claiming the right to unilaterally expel anyone it wants Salon · Mar 25, 2025
‘Nazis got better treatment’: Appeals court judges skeptical of Trump arguments to deport Venezuelans Judges question whether government can deport alleged Tren de Aragua members without chance to challenge removal The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2025
Venezuelan immigrants deported from US to Venezuela via Honduras In apparent deal between three countries, Venezuelan official said country would resume accepting US deportees The Guardian - US · Mar 24, 2025
Jim Jordan Sets Start Date For Hearing On Judge Targeted By Trump Admin Over Deportations Standoff Rep. Jim Jordan said hearings aimed at grilling judge James Boasberg, who is challenging the legality of the deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans to El Salvador, will take place next week Latin Times · Mar 24, 2025
Border Czar Again Blasts Judges, Vows To Continue Deportations: 'Well, I Don't Care' Border Czar Tom Homan again slammed judges ruling against the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport hundreds of Venezuelans Latin Times · Mar 24, 2025
US resists transparency on Venezuelan gang deportation moves - Roll Call The Trump administration has resisted giving more information about the migrants it flew out of the country under the Alien Enemies Act. Roll Call · Mar 24, 2025
Pam Bondi Stands By Use of Alien Enemies Act For Swift Deportations: 'It's Modern-Day Warfare' Attorney General Pam Bondi is standing by the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to swiftly deport hundreds of Venezuelans, saying the country is engulfed in "modern-day warfare" Latin Times · Mar 24, 2025
Trump slams ‘radical left’ Colorado governor for ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait hanging in state capitol building President Trump labels portrait of himself ‘truly the worst’ by the same artist who made Barack Obama look ‘wonderful’ The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2025
Trump's US Migrant Hunt Spares No One From Deportation Franco Caraballo was arrested while at a US immigration center for an appointment. International Business Times · Mar 24, 2025
Return of High-Profile MS-13 Leader To El Salvador Could Suggest Trump Administration Prioritizes Mass Deportations: Report Among those deported to El Salvador was César Humberto López Larios, one of the original members of the "Twelve Apostles of the Devil," a group considered foundational to the establishment and expansion of MS-13's influence across the U.S. and Latin America. Latin Times · Mar 23, 2025
Questions swirl after Trump says he didn’t sign Aliens Enemies Act - so who did? Questions around the signature led some to speculate the president may have used an autopen – a device he has criticized The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025
Venezuela to resume repatriation of migrants after deal with US, official says A Venezuelan official says Venezuela will once again accept repatriation flights from the United States carrying its deported nationals, after reaching an agreement The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025
The Independent UK · Mar 22, 2025 Trump White House could let federal agents search homes without warrants under Alien Enemies Act Justice Department official says ‘terrorists don’t get to hide behind closed doors’ as legal experts sound alarm
The Guardian - US · Mar 21, 2025 Judge in US deportations case says Trump administration lawyers were ‘disrespectful’ James Boasberg considers whether to maintain block on deportation of accused Venezuelan gang members
Reason · Mar 21, 2025 Trump's Reading of the Alien Enemies Act Defies the Usual Meaning of Its Terms To justify the immediate deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, the president is invoking a rarely used statute that does not seem to apply in this context.
Latin Times · Mar 21, 2025 Trump Linked Tren De Aragua With Venezuela's Regime To Conduct Swift Deportations, But The Intelligence Says Otherwise Findings from the intelligence community cast doubt on Trump's justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
Salon · Mar 21, 2025 Where immigrants are sent to "disappear" The Trump administration is using an infamous prison in El Salvador as a legal "black hole"
The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2025 ‘Deported because of his tattoos’: has the US targeted Venezuelans for their body art? US claims tattoos prove membership of Tren de Aragua gang but relatives describe tributes to God, family and Real Madrid
The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025 Everyday tattoos got Venezuelan men ID'd as gang members and deported, lawyers say Defense lawyers say some of the roughly 200 Venezuelan men the U.S. deported after accusing them of being gang members were targeted because of their everyday tattoos
The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025 Trump administration deported Venezuelan asylum seeker over Real Madrid tattoo, court documents say ICE has baselessly accused immigrants who fled torture of being members of the gang they escaped, lawyers say
Latin Times · Mar 20, 2025 Lawyers Describe 'Chaos' At Deportation Flights Taking Venezuelans: 'Crying And Frightened' Lawyers representing Venezuelan deportees say the Trump administration has not presented evidence linking them to Tren de Aragua
Al Jazeera · Mar 20, 2025 Fact check: Is Tren de Aragua invading the US, as Trump says? Trump cites the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport a Venezuelan gang, calling it an invasion, but legal experts disagree.
The Guardian - US · Mar 19, 2025 ‘He is innocent’: family of deported Venezuelan rebukes Trump claims Brother of Francisco Javier García Casique spotted him in a video showing scores of Venezuelan prisoners being taken to notorious El Salvador prison